Originally Posted By: johnnyboysala
Originally Posted By: Strax
Originally Posted By: Dwalin2011
Originally Posted By: johnnyboysala
In Sicily - Toto Riina, no doubt.


Toto' Riina may have been great at conducting mafia wars, but in my opinion he sucked at maintaining contacts with politicians. He just wanted them to be his pet dogs. If they disobeyed, he killed them (see Salvo Lima).


+1 on that,there were much smarter bosses in Sicily than Toto Riina,he wanted to kill everybody who went against him,or disobeyed.That's not way mafia should operate,after Toto Riina's violence state went in battle against them which led to a lot of bosses being arrested etc.

For Sicily i would say Calogero Vizzini.


All true, sorry. Think somewhere between reading the replies and actually posting I forgot this was originally a "greatest" mob boss discussion and posted thinking it were "most powerful".

In terms of military power, I agree though Riina was the strongest. If Vizzini had been still alive in the 80s, he would probably have been whacked.

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1) "You people want a loaf of bread and you throw the crumbs back. Well, fuck you. I ain't closing down."

2) "Get out of here, old man. Go tell Raymond to go shit in his hat. We're not giving you anything."